Carbureter feed attachment.



- A. KOSSINA.

CARBURETER FEED ATTACHMENT.

APPEICATION FILED APR-8.19 15.

PatentedMan 27, 1.917.

INVENTQF H UHM WITNESSES:

A N s s 0 K m V o L A ALOIS'KOSSINA, 015 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2%, 191%.

Application filed Apri1 8, 1915. s erial lio. 19,848.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALOIS KOSSINA, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carburetor Feed Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to carbureter -feed attachments. An object of the present invention is to provide an attachment for carbureters whereby steam may flow into the carburetor to mix with air and fuel to facilitate carburation.

Other objects consist in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts more particularly set forth in this specification and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein'like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur,

Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe attachment embodyin the present invention connected with a car ureter and with the radiator of an automobile, a part of the feedpipe of said attachment being broken away longitudinally to show a sectional view of the drain opening and baffle-plate associated therewith; and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view, partly in perspective and partly in section, of part of the feed pipe shown as broken away in Fig. 1, and a piece to each side of the baffle-plate therein.

By way of illustration in a device embodying the present invention used in connection with an automobile or the like, a pipe or tube 1 is connected at one end with the casing of carburetor 2 in an appropriate opening therefor whereby said tube communicates with the interior of said carbureter and thence to the manifold 3 of the engine, and the other end of said tube opens into cappiece 4: of radiator 5, said tube being of any suitable longitudinal configuration, such, for instance, as that shown in Fig. 1 of the acoompanying drawings, wherein a horizontal length is connected by means of an elbow 6 or the like to a double curved upwardly extending length therefrom running to sai cap-piece 4 as shown in said. Fig. 1, the open terminal end of said tube being preferably smaller in diameter than the diameter of said cap-piece and being adapted to enter in the usual manner into said open terminal end by ticularly to prevent slightly into said cap-piece as shown saidv drawings.

At any suitable location lntermediate the radiator and the carbureter, an opening 7 is provided in the lower side of said tube, and an upwardly-turned baffle-plate 8 is provided withinsaid tube, said baffle-plate being adapted partially to obstruct the channel of said tube and to extend inwardly and upwardly therein partly across the path of said channel, as shown in the. drawings. Said opening 7 and said baiHe-plate 8 may be formed by a cut into the under side of said tube transverse its length and toward its center and a-portion ad acent said out and' along the dlrection toward the carburetor may be bent inclined upwardly'into said tube, said bent portion forming an obstruction extending partly across the path of the channel of said tube, the incline of said obstruction being upwardly into said tube and away from said carbureter and the mouth of said opening 7 being toward the radiator.

In operation, steam of a greater or less density and hot water entering radiator 5 from the water jacket v(not shown) of the engine (not shown) will rise therein and collect near and at the top of said radiator and will flow into the open terminal end of tube 1 from the space about said end in said cap-piece 4, being forced the action of (not shown) or by along tube 1 and the circulation pump other suitable means or agencies, and wil then flow along the interior of said tube toward and into carburetor 2, water condensed from said steam, the cooler water in said tube, and liquid impurities, such, for instance, as oil entering said tube with said steam and water, being drained therefrom through opening '7, but steam therein havmg said tube will flow onward beyond said baffle-plate 8 toward and into said carbureter, the pressure of air upwardly against steam passing said opening 7 tending parthe escape of steam through said opening. Moreover, any solid particles or impurities carried into and along said tube with steam and water will tend to seek the lower level within said tube, and upon reaching opening 7 and baffie-plate 8, will be drained-out of said tube through said opening.

a tendency to seek the higher level n 1 9 v flows and 1s the mixture of steam,

- The steam, .enterin in, the temperature 01 said steam and hot water together with its chemical composition facilitating the process of carburation, and of ignition in the engine cylinder, and

gasolene or other carbonaceous li bureter forms and prod engine (not shown) through manifold 3, which gas has improved explosive and ignition properties superior to those of the gas ordinarily introduced into the cylinders .of internal combustion engines by the ordinary provisions for carburation of air and carbonaceous liquid fuel through a-carbureter A carbureter feed in combination with the carbureter and carbureterw 2, mingles with air and gaso ene or the like therein the rear thereof substantially op the carbureter; an L-coupling quid fuel and air in any de-' sired proportlons sprayed through said caruces a gas which drawn into the eylinders'of the attachment comprising,

macho?" radiator of an automobile, a vapor exhaust pipe leading from the radiator t0 'a. poilg posi attached to the lower end of the pipe; an a single unitary pipe' connecting the coupling to the carbureter; said connecting pipe having a transverse curved slit in its under side at a point spaced from the coupling and that portion of the pipe, on the side of the slit remote from the coupling being bent upwardly at an inclination toward the cou'-- pling end of the pipe to extend within the pipe a distance greater thanhalf'the diameter of said pipe to serve as a bafiie.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALOIS KOSSINA.

'Witnesses:

NAlgox C. THOMAS, WALTER O. Gums. 

